Iggy

Did that after I removed the cardboard bottom- they fell apart! Now I soak them in the kitchen sink or bathtub in a small amount of laundry deterget and bleach. Push them around in the soapy water, let them soak for 15- 30 minutes, then spray rinse them. I then hang them from the bottom to air dry. I have 18 bags - When I grocery shop- I SHOP!!! If someone has a pattern for cloth bags that are the same size as the paper grocery bags, I sure would like it. I would make my own out of unbleached muslin (found in paint stores as muslin drop cloths), then I can toss in the machine and dryer. What started me washing them was my meat leaking blood - and a bottle of vinegar leaking. Pew what a mess.

No white ones, sorry. They are for the temples only.

UPDATE: We left on Monday after having the fuel line replaced in/on the U-haul truck. Got to Gila Bend and called U-Haul regarding a crack in the windshield. They said to go on to Oregon and inform the U-haul place where we turn it in and they will replace the entire windshield. The cats did well on this trip. No distress meowing or screaching. They refused food and water the first two days, then on wednesday evening when we stopped just outside of Albany OR for the night, they drank nearly 16 oz of water between the two of them, and ate a small handful of Kitten Chow (it is easier on the tummy of stressed cats). We arrived at our destination around 2:30 pm. Husband & I had lunch at the Apple Peddler in Newport OR, then he went on to the new house while I went in to Safeway to get kitty litter, and some food for us. We weren't able to get the truck and trailer unloaded until Sun afternoon after Church. We hired a guy that we found in the classifieds. Took him and his helper 6 hours to unload. They removed the washer & dryer that were in the house, changer the plug on my dryer. They had to remove the railing on the front porch to get the sofa in, which they also replaced. We got internet hooked up yesterday afternoon, and Husbands NEW recliner will be delivered today between 2 & 3 pm. I have enough time to clear out boxes to make room for the recliner. Thank Heavens. Oh, the cats. Ethel only stayed mad at me for about 6 hours. After husband and I got settled in bed for the night, Ethel was up on the bed and snuggling up against me. This is something new for her. SHE has never gotten on the bed while I am in it. She prefers to be next to me when I am on the sofa with a throw on me. She does sleep on husband's hip when he is napping in the bed. We think it is because now there is room- we have a NEW king bed, our old(2 yrs) queen is in the guest room now. Once I moved the boxes that were blocking the laundry room, the cats have been racing throughout the house. They start in the Master bedroom, charge down the hall way, one goes to the left through the laundry room into the kitchen and the other stays right and zooms through, over and around all the boxes and tables in the living room. We can hear them at night too- guess we both will be wearing ear plugs as the cats are not about to cease the evening races. I am so glad they are happy in the house. I can hardly wait until everything is put away, the furnature placed and they discover the 4" window sills in the six windows! Quickly discovered that there is only room in kitchen cupboards for food-mixing bowls-pots & pans or serving/eating from dishes. I will be using one of my DIY storage cupboards to house the plates, glasses, cups and flatware, while I am on the look out for a China Hutch & bureau. Time to fix breakfast then on to moving boxes out of the way.

We rented the u-haul truck friday afternoon, then the neighbors came over and helped to move the packed items out to the yard, and to empty our two storage rooms. Saturday, the one guy from the EQ and two guys from the HP came and loaded the truck. These guys are from another ward than ours too! NO one from our ward showed up!!!!! They were kind enough to dismantle our large screen tv and re-box it. Then the neighbors came over and packed up the rest of the heavy furniture. Neighbor guys helped to pack up things in the house, then loaded the truck. Neighbor guys also re-loaded what the LDS helpers did- balanced out the load, and brought boxes back in the house for me to re-pack (six boxes were filled with to-the-dump stuff!) My visiting teacher came over at 2 pm, and packed up my kitchen! She did a wonderful job. We spent the night at Super 8 Motel (rather nice room and firm, comfy bed and DEEP bathtub!)- will go back to the house at 9 am to pack up the rest of the stuff, all of the clothes and stuff the cats into the carrier. We will spend one more night here at the motel, then head out early monday morning. With driving a 17' u-haul truck that is towing a small u-haul trailer, we expect to be on the road three days (two nights). We are not in a race to get to Oregon- we would rather pay an extra day on the u-haul than get in a wreck from pushing ourselves to drive longer than we can handle.

Print out the emails you sent to him, then you AND hubby make an appointment with teacher AND the principle and let hubby loose on him. You could also give him a loaf of bread along with a calendar with a star on the day that he made the flash cards. Or in other words in responce to his repeatedly stating that HE made flash cards. openyourmind states- And your point is? How does your daughter feel about this teacher? If she doesn't like him, then you need to get her into another class.

I agree with John Doe. I also want to add one more thing - this family are LDS, correct? Then they have also ignored the 12th Article of Faith - We believe in being asubject to bkings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in cobeying, honoring, and sustaining the dlaw. According to what others have posted previously, they have repeatedly ignored the law of this land. What does their children's grade point average have to do with them NOT obeying the law? Anyone who purchases anything in the US is going to pay sales tax (in most states) regardless if they are legal residents or not. If you book a room in a hotel or motel you will pay at least one tax if not more, depending on the city, county and state regulations. Same for food in a restaurant, gas, etc. So there goes the Paying Tax thing, again, what does that have to do with them NOT obeying the law?

Pam, my guest bedroom is always ready for you!!

It is even too hot for me in Casa Grande AZ in the winter! Our AC is set at 75 degree's year round, and I wear the thinnest clothes possible. Where husband works there is no AC, yet it is the AC/Heating plant for the ASU Campus. In the winter it is 85 to 95+ degrees INSIDE the plant. He is tired of it too. It is so much easier to put clothes on and remain modest, then it is to remove all your clothes I am going to enjoy shopping for warm clothing for my husband. Snuggly, warm sweats to lounge around the house in, long sleeved flannel shirts, warm jacket to wear outside, hat with ear flaps (he loathes cold ears). I also am going to love & enjoy having a vegetable garden, and house plants.

As of 30 October 2010 Darling Husband Retired!!! He will have 25 days vacation/sick time in which we will spend packing and the long move to the Central Oregon Coast, then he has to return to work on 6 Dec 2010 to turn in his old ID card and to get his new ID Card (for insurance, etc. ). I will remain in Oregon, he will drive to Casa Grande AZ to stay in the house, and then to close it up and shut every thing down. Once he has done his retirement thingy at ASU- he will then drive to Oregon.

I do the music thing when I clean house too - except when Husband is home, he doesn't like the noise. I reward myself with a cool down break for 30 minutes- then get back to the job at hand. In cleaning out & packing up the clothes closet, I had to rearrange the toilet paper I stored there. On the floor under the clothes. I noticed that the newer packages I bought are smaller than the packages I bought two years ago. When packages of 12 Double rolls went on sale for $4.99 compared to regular price of $10.49 I really stocked up. Anyway, the newer rolls are nearly an inch shorter. So I checked out the differences. Sure enough the new is smaller. Each square is now 4 inches square compared to the old, 4.25 inch square. Compared on the TP roll holder, there is nearly an inch more space. The price has gone up, the roll has gotten smaller. Noticed this years ago with food products. Candy bars getting smaller, canned goods too. When I was in High School (1967-1970) a #303 can of vegetables actually held 28 oz of food, now it is 20 oz. A can of coffee used to be 3 lbs. Now it is 2 lbs 4 oz I think- or round about that much. At least a gal of milk or juice is still 1 gal. For the last year, I have not added to my non-food storage. I am down to 6 packages of TP instead of keeping it at 12. The bath soap is down to 4 extra bars instead of 40 or 60 bars. I have 6 of the smaller liquid laundry detergents (got them for $1.29 each) Did not refill my HUGE dispenser, that is soooooo heavy with it is full. I will empty it out and toss it. Buy a new one in Oregon- one that will fit in the cupboard above the washing machine. Ben, 35 moves , wow - I don't think I could do that many without succumbing to debilitating depression. It has been said that the fourth move is likened to a catastrophe hitting you- the amount of items being lost. I find that to be true in my life. Every fourth move I lost nearly a third of my belongings. In the move to AZ I had to leave behind almost half of my things. I still have boxes of things that I have not opened. These boxes got shoved into the extra room and then two plastic garbage cans full of lawn tools and other tools got shoved in front of them, then empty boxes, then more junk. The extra room is not Air Conditioned - so in the summer it is 120-140 degrees in there. I have yet to go in there and remove items to re-pack and toss. It is the home of the big fat fuzzy black spiders!!! Everything in the extra room has to be taken outside, emptied, made sure no spiders or other insects are living in it, then either tossed/burned/ or repacked. I have lots of plastic totes to repack into, since I space bagged the towels, sheets, clothes. I have five laundry baskets worth of towels/wash cloths/hand towels. Big laundry baskets - these all fit in a Jumbo Cube space bag. Then I added 6 sets of queen sheets and 24 pillow cases. I sucked the air out, let it sit for 24 hours and then decided to add two more sets of towels and 4 more sets of queen sheet sets so I opened the zipper, wanted to see if I would have enough room- see how much air went back into it. Not that much. I can add everything I want to. Now I have a small cube space bag for husbands & my jeans. Ooohhh, I really love space bags. When we get unpacked in Oregon- I am space bagging all of our extra blankets, quilts. Think I just may do the queen sheets too. The queen bed will be our guest bed - I bought a new King for the Oregon home. Time to do a bit more packing- even though it is Sunday and Husband is home. I'll do my books.

We are moving to Oregon from Arizona around the first of November. I drove to Oregon in August to find a home for us, found one, purchased it, and did a little prep to get it ready for us to move into. Hubby drove up in his PU with a small load of food storage, left the PU at the new house and we drove home together. It is now the 21st of October and I have only packed up all but 4 sets of sheets, ALL of my socks/scarves/and handkerchiefs, all of my sweaters/dresses (save one)and two ladies blazers. I have dreaded packing- I want out of AZ so dang bad- yet when it comes to packing up I am frozen to immobility! Husband told me to go on line to U-Haul and hire someone to pack us up and load a rental truck. The cost is more than my 1/16th Scots blood will allow me to pay!!!! In perusing the U-Haul web site I found packaging for sale. There were only two items that piqued my interest. The garment box and the Space Bag. I would have to purchase a dozen or so box's to hold all of my hanging items. (I hang my jeans, slacks & capri's). So I researched more about the Space Bag. The closest U-Haul store is 45 miles from here - so I went on line to Walmart and Target. They both carry - in store - the Space Bag products. I read all of the reviews- about equal in like and dislike - decided to go ahead and purchase the 3 cube package and the regular flat package. If I didn't like them, then I could return them. Walmart only had the regular flat package of three. It was $6.00 more than what Target said they were asking. Went to Target, and they had the cubes, flat packaging, set of 6 assorted. I bought $49.00 worth - Didn't try them out until the next day. Decided to pack up what I haven't touched for 6 years here in AZ, but will need and use daily in Oregon - my socks! I tossed about 1/8th of them - holes in the heels. NO I do NOT darn socks. With diabetic feet I am extremely careful of seams- darns will cause friction and sores on my heels. I filled a small cube with my socks, scarves and handkerchiefs. Boy oh Boy - I am greatly impressed with the Space Bag. My vacuum cleaner is a relatively new Sears canister- it sucked out the air in less than a minute! That was sooooo much fun, I did the sheets- took a bit more time to get the sheets arranged right- but the result is most satisfying! Then I decided to tackle the hanging clothes. I used a flat bag and put my sweaters (which I never wore here in AZ- but wear ALL the time in OR)- those half filled the bag- so I did the two blazers and the three dresses. What totally amazes me is the weight of these fabric items! They are heavy! I was like a child eager to show my parent the great work I had done when Hubby walked in the door from work. He was amazed too- These sucked up items would have gone into at least a dozen bankers boxes. My preferred moving box. His only remark was a day later- he commented that since my 5 drawer dresser is now in a space bag- we will be moving empty drawers- will the space bags fit in the empty drawers?? NOPE- but we are not moving his HUGE - UGLY dresser. His garments, socks, etc. WILL fit in my 5 drawer dresser. The cubes will fit in the book cases. With out the shelves and laid on their sides, you can fit boxes and plastic totes in the cavities. I also pack my books into plastic totes. We have a hand cart- so transporting those HEAVY totes is made easier. I don't toss books, nor do I give them away. Once I get them moved to Oregon, I just may hire a high school kid who aspires to be a librarian one day, to unpack my books. Or I may entice Elphaba to come stay with us for a few months during the summer and she can help me to unpack my books and put them away properly - I am debating how to pack my food storage cupboards. I am thinking just leave the food (dry goods) in the cupboards and tie the doors shut. OR pack the food into the smaller plastic totes I already have, remove the doors and the shelves and place the totes into the cavities. Husband just told me that we are most definitely hiring a crew to load the U-haul. He and I can not lift and move his Oak computer desk, washer and dryer, small freezer, sofa and my cast iron parlor stove. It will be worth the $80.00 and hour for two men to do all that. They work for U-Haul so they know how to balance out the load. We have saved the original boxes to each of our computers, the big screen, & monitors knowing we would be moving in less than a year. These have been stored in one of the extra rooms. I will have to take them outside and make sure there are no HUGE, FUZZY, FAT, BLACK spiders living in them. {{{shudder}}} I really do not want to move the floor lamps. They only cost $9.99 new. They have been moved three times by me. I am tired of them - they are a pain in the - ahem - to move around in the house, let alone to a moving truck and then into a new home. I would rather purchase new all matching floor lamps in OR. We are not moving bed pillows either. I toss our pillows every three months - and purchase new $8.99 ones. Have done this all my adult life. We have new pillows waiting for us on our new King size bed!! I will purchase three new pillows for the Queen size guest bed once we get moved and preferrably just before we have guests. Catching the cats and putting them into the carrier is going to be the hardest of all. We will have to trap them in the empty 'Office' and Hubby can tackle Ethyl and I can tackle Fred and then we can stuff them into the Med. size dog carrier. I have only moved these two cats three times. Each time it is harder to do, and each time I have dreaded doing it. Oh, anybody living in Pinal or Maricopa county who would like to purchase a Northern Lights exercise gym, please go to craigs list-phoenix and check out my ad. When you respond use your lds.net name and I will reduce the price for you. I need to shake off this immobility-depression and get PACKING!!

My husband and I are in a similar situation. He bought this home nearly 5 years before we were married. We have been married 6 years now. He refinanced it once to get money to repair the roof (completely new 50 yr roof), put in new heat/AC pump, new carpet throughout and vinyl in kitchen, new range and refrigerator and repair head sized holes in sheet rock that was done by his youngest brother when he was living here rent free. Then a year or two later he refinanced again to take advantage of lower interest rates. We owe approximately $58K. He is retiring in November of this year, we have bought a home on the Oregon coast - got a sweet, sweet deal on that one- and we want to sell our home and 1.5 acres here in Arizona. Our problem is the market has taken a dump! One mile from use is a new development of 2009 3 bd 2 bath/4 bd 3 bath manufactured homes sitting on 3/4 & 1 acres that are going for $30K. This is what the banks are selling these foreclosed homes for. We want to sell for $75K- every Realtor we have talked to told us we would be lucky to realize $20K!! My solution is to rent it out for $550 a month and the renter pays all utilities. Husband wants to walk away from it. By moving out of state, Arizona won't chase us for the money. I have expressed my feelings to husband about walking away from a debt. We did not obtain a mortgage loan that was more than we could afford. Actually we can pay the mortgage. We don't want to have an empty home in AZ and living in OR. We want to sell the home and pay off the mortgage, closing costs and Realtors fees. Last week a good friend and ex-coworker of husbands called to say hello. Long story short, his grown daughter may be needing a bigger home to live in. She is paying $600 a month for a 1 bd/1bath apartment now, and has her washer and dryer in storage - goes to the Laundromat. Her average electric bill is $500 a month!! She is getting screwed on that- her Dad is checking with the power company to see if she is paying for two apartments worth of electricity. The most our elect bill has been is $228 a month during the hottest months of the year. She has been here to look at the house- and she seemed interested. We have a two bedroom, one bath home. Plus we have two added on rooms that do NOT have heat or AC to them, but they are great for storage &/or plants. I use one for the kitty litter room, the other for storage. I am hoping that this gal will rent our home. We will rent to her for $500 a month and we will pay the water and garbage bill. Both combined will be approximately $58.00 a month!! We also won't ask for a deposit or last months rent- she will need to clean the place before she moves in, and be available for our handyman so he can put in a new bathroom door and bedroom door and install a fan/light in the living room. Soooo- if we don't rent to this gal, then we are just going to walk away from the mortgage.

UPDATE: I got 90% of the repairs done on the house. The ramp to the back door and fixing the kitchen drawers (4 of them) will wait until we move the furniture, the cats and myself to Oregon permanently. Husband left AZ at 3pm last Saturday and arrived in Waldport around 6 pm on Sunday. He just couldn't take it any more there with out me, and I was really hesitant to do the long drive back to AZ. He brought a small load with him in his Chevy Colorado PU. One of my food storage cupboards- put all the canned goods into 5 large plastic totes. We are bringing the empty totes back - will pack lightweight stuff in them this time, like towels, sheets, boxed/ envelope foods. I also bought a king sized bed for us- our Queen is not that comfortable- this bed is!! I had been sleeping on an inflatable twin set on a twin platform. I was always afraid that the bed would pop out from under me when I turned over!! It has been wonderful here in Oregon. Had two days of record highs- Any way, once I get to AZ, I can come online anytime I want to- well, when I take breaks from packing. The library is closing so I have to end this and sign off.

Speaking from experience- put soiled diapers into a container half filled with water- boraxo/borateam mix. My aunt never did this and after one month her diapers were grey, heavy and no amount of dryer sheets/ fabric softener would take out the sour smell. Took me three washings to get them white, light and stink free. Stale urine = ammoinia. Ammonia and feces poorly laundered out of 100% cotton makes them grey, heavy, and still stinky. If you can't stand to handle soaked diapers with your bare hands, put on kitchen rubber gloves. Wring out diapers and put into plastic basket, take to washer. Wash in HOT water with detergent and bleach. Go easy on the detergent, use about 1/2 of what the detergent manufacturer recommends. Remember the soap company wants you to buy LOTS of their product. Also only use 1/2 cup bleach added to about a cup of water. Add to washer after it has started to agitate. Rinse diapers twice. Left over soap and bleach is rough on tender skin. Dump the soiled water down the toliet, NOT the bathtub, NOT the kitchen sink, and definately NOT in the washing machine. When I was laundering diapers, during the summer and on dry, brisk windy winter days, I preferred to hang them out. Yes they were a bit stiff, but if you take them and rub them into themselves they soften up quite nicely. Fold and put away.

Especially when that project takes you our of 100+ degree weather and puts you in 57 - 77 degree weather ~ ~ singing~ ~ I'm in heaven . . By the way- once I get settled in Oregon, there will be a bed for any of the LDS.net sisters at any time. For the brothers of LDS.net, you will have to check in when hubby is home before you can come visit & stay with me,on the Oregon coast. :) Before I forget, I want to thank all of you for your prayers and good wishes. They are helping me in ways that surprise even me. As anxious as I have been to get out of AZ, I am curiously calm with the waiting for the funds to get into my checking account, and finalizing the deal, AND cleaning the place, getting the carpet people there to snug up the carpeting, a plumber to replace the taps in both bathrooms, etc. Next is the trip back to AZ. Not for a month or so though. Perhaps I will be lucky and miss the monsoons by then.

Thanks Pam- when you are on the coast- you have a bed and room with us waiting for you. I am in Seattle right now with family. Husband and I figured it would be a waste of time, gas and money if I came back to AZ before we took possession of the house. I will stay in Seattle until the middle of the month, then head back to the coast. I will also call the Branch RS Pres and ask if she can find someone/family that will put me up for no more than a week (until we pay the down payment and take possession of the house) and someone who can loan me a twin bed until I leave for AZ - This way I can get the place fixed, cleaned and ready for us to move into. Whew - when things are meant to be, time just flies- and every thing falls into place.

UPDATE: We made an offer on the house - $6,400 less than their asking price. Figured they would counter with $2,000 less than asking, then we would offer $2,000 more. Well guess what?? They accepted our offer!!!! We will pay the down payment and take possession on 31 Aug 2010 - then pay the balance off the first of Feb 2011 - I am finally moving home to the Central Oregon Coast! I am in Seattle now visiting my family - I'll go to AZ to pack, we can finalize the sale by phone and fax and internet. We can pay by epay- or bank transfer. Epay only takes 4 days to reach the recipient by mail- we can mail it to the Real Estate Agent. We Got The Home - YES - -YES- - YES:bouncing:

DON'T use tomato sauce or juice- use Pine Sol. One cup to a 5 gal bucket of hot/warm water for you, dogs, and washing area. It works better and on the off chance you or your dogs are alergic to tomatoes (topical) you won't have to invest in rash creams either. I am with you Dr.T- skunk (& civit cat) spray burns my eyes, nose, throat and makes me throwup. I wore three of the cheaper face masks with Pine Sol dripped on the middle one, and had to spend three nights in a motel before I could tolerate being in the house. By leaving dog food out you are in effect inviting skunks, racoons, possums and other wildlife over for dinner. Once your dogs have eaten what they want bring the food in. Your dogs are getting sprayed because they are protecting their territory and the skunk is protecting itself. Put some Pine Sol out around the perimiter of your yard in smallish throw away containers - I have found that only humans tolerate the smell of Pine Sol. Skunks/civit cats, rats, mice, rodents of any kind, possums, racoons, coyotes, bob cats and bears HATE the smell and will not cross over the barriers or come back. My home perimeter looked like I was casting some strange spell- I bought the short squat 1/2 pint freezer containers and filled them half full of Pine Sol and placed them about six inches apart. My 4 year old dog knew better than to bother the containers- she had to be bathed in a tub full of warm water and 2 cups of Pine Sol. Husband learned to never attempt to kill two civit cats - he got sprayed from head to foot- couldn't salvage the boots, but everything else was de-sprayed with the Pine-Sol. Even the aluminum siding of our house. Not only is this hint brought to you by first hand experience, but I was told it by a friend who caught and deskunked skunks for a living.

UPDATE: made the trip in three days. Could have done it in two- but i just didn't want to be on the road for 9 to 11 hours. my car gets MORE miles to the gallon than we thought. I figured 25, got 27-29 instead. That does make a difference. The weather from AZ through CA and up the OR coast was beautiful. Didn't hit cooler (under 85) temps until I got to Florence OR. It was 75, sunny and SMELLED SO SWEET AND CLEN. Waldport was 65, and just starting to cloud and fog up, but mind you itwas 5 pm. i came hereto look at a manufactured home in a familypark- did that yesterday. It is nice, the new carpeting needs to be stretched to get the "wrinkles" out, the owners left stuff in every room and in 1/4 of the cupboards, drawers. The lot- side yards and back yard are a mess. Trash, weeds and two 30 gal trash cans full of water and trash (health hazard). Because the home owners are still paying rent, it is their responsibility to clean it up, which they are notgoing to do. The bathroom taps (both bathroom) need replacing- as does the shower fixtures. The rooms are nice sized- and i didn't see any signs of water leaks on the ceilings, walls or around the windows. The windows are new too. The water is city, the septic is a common septic. There is NO flood addendum, and according to the US Geological Tsunami danger area map the entire park is well out of danger. The 2010 County taxes were $644 a year. oh, it is a 1992, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, kitch, dining rm, den, living room(which is the entire length of the home (57 ft.) i need to take pics of the outside, ask more questions, then call husband. Side note; got a flexible keyboard to use with husbands laptop- takes me twice as long as my regular keyboard and 1/2 as long as the laptop keyboard. have to go talkto the motel manager and see if i can get a discounted rate for 5 more days added to the two I hve already been here.

On the 13th of July I was "downsized - terminated" at work. My boss wanted me to work until the 15th- I didn't say yes or no- I was too numb to talk other than to ask her if she wanted me to leave when she did at 5:30 or to stay until 7? - She said stay. At 7 locked the doors and drove to Target and bought 4 plastic totes. Came back to work and packed up my plants, pictures, pens, etc. Then I locked up and went home. Once I got home I broke down and had a REAL good cry. Husband called me at 10:30 PM- said he had a feeling he needed to call - I broke down again- managed to sob out: check email, then I hung up. I got to work the next day early - finished the project in process-then attempted to work on the next project, yet my boss kept taking work away from me, or asking me how do we do this? Rather than just let me do it and get it done before my shift ended. I have to admit, without the next project to work on I was totally lost- I couldn't think- so I emptied the delete folder in my email program, gathered up my two fans (small table fan and floor tower fan) and told the boss that I was leaving- that this was my last day. She was totally stumped why I would leave early. She wanted me to stay and let her pick my brain about how my job is done. She had told me the previous day that the job I was doing was her forte- so HUH?? what is with the picking my brain???? The evening I was terminated; husband and I had a real good talk, soul searching, touching. Man oh Man- Father blessed me with THE MOST wonderful companion!! He said: Iggy, why don't you take advantage of this great opportunity and go to the Oregon Coast and find us a place there. Take the month of August ( it is the hottest and nastiness month in AZ) and look. Either to buy or to rent. Look for a job, go see your family, take a month or two if need be. WOW!!!! OK, more tears came- because I thought I was going to have a fight on my hands regarding me moving back to Oregon - Not so - ----many grateful thanks sent up to Father- - - On thursday I went surfing the MLS for the Central Oregon Coast and came across a 1992 Manu home for sale - cheap. On impulse I called a girl friend and asked if she would go take a look, smell, listen for rodents. I called an agent (also a girlfriend of mine) and asked if she would contact friend #1 and go see this home. They did - even sent me pictures- It is sooooo cute, clean, new carpet, sheetrock walls through out, freshly painted, vaulted ceilings through out, new sinks in bathrooms. I am leaving this friday to drive to the coast and see, smell, kick walls and listen for rodents, talk with the park owner/manager and offer them $5,000 less than their asking price. Sure wish I had a traveling buddy - Husband can't go- he is having eye surgery on the 22nd and then the other eye will be done on the 4th of Aug. He can't risk going and catching a cold. It is too short of notice for my oldest brothers wife to fly here and go with me. Once we either get it - or not, I will go on up to Seattle and spend some time with my family. Busy week- lots and lots to be grateful for- Thank you Father.

Use Black Cohosh- at least 1000 mg once to twice a day. It took me nearly a month before it started to work, and I took 3000 mg a day. 1000 mg in the morning and 2000 after dinner. The only place I found it in doses bigger than 45mg was through Pilgrim's Pride - on-line. Bought a case of it!! I am through menopause and have 1/3 of a case left.

The person who suggested the extra t-shirt, is s/he LDS?? It is the sillyist thing I have ever seen- yes I know ONE LDS guy who does that. When he is out mowing his yard. THANK goodness the yard is at the back of the house, and very few people can see him. By the way, I have two blouses that if I press them against me, you can see the whiteness of my garments. Don't press the shirt/blouse against you.

Do you mean 90 degrees? Well you won't get any sympathy from me regarding ONLY 90- not when it has been 109-120 where I live!!! You don't wear just your top garment and not another shirt do you? It is not like a T-shirt or regular undershirt you know. As for your garment showing through the shirt, don't worry about it. Worry when you wear your garment and then put a tank top on or a shirt that has open weave, like a net does. Even before I knew about garments, I always thought it was in extremely bad taste for men to NOT wear an undershirt under their button up shirt. The same for women to NOT wear a slip under a dress/skirt. Or as we used to say when we were teens - Tacky, tacky, tacky. My husband wears the cotton jersey fabric, yes it stays wet when he perspires, but he wants it to hold the sweat so that the warm/hot breeze hits it and cools him down. Where he works there is NO AC- just fans moving hot, humid air around. If he is damp, the fans do cool him down. I prefer the DriSilque- when I get too damp I can also go to the restroom and remove the garment, swing it around a bit and put it back on- dries in that time!! What stays damp forever are my bras.

Faith In God is something the Young Men work on until they are 18. So you have many years to work on it. I also recommend you talk with your Bishop, and get the involvement of him and the Young Mens President/Leaders to help and assist you. When I was in Young Women's, it was stressed to us by the Stake YW Presidency that the YW Presidency/Leaders were to work WITH the parents and the Young Women. I know this was stressed to the Young Mens leadership as well - 'cause we were all together in the Chapel. Edited: Okay, so I looked up Faith In God- this IS done in Primary not in Young Mens. We didn't have this when I was called in Primary. I did a quick scan of the book. Most of these requirements are rather simple, some you are already doing daily. Because your son has special needs, the Primary Presidency and the Bishopric should be helping you in helping your son. Learning the Articles of Faith: Have him memorize one a week. Give his testimony: This he can give in front of you. Remember a testimony is NOT a 5 minute to 20 minute dialogue. Does he understand that God loves him? That is a testimony! Work with the Primary Presidency on this. I am sure they will be more than happy to assist you and your son.

I was touched most by the people in the crowd who stood in respect! Generally the 30 yo and younger don't - and in this video they did. Thanks so much Pam for posting this.